How a TV show changed Chernobyl tourism

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Visitors have been known to take objects out of the exclusion zone as souvenirs.

has attracted a new generation of tourists to the nuclear disaster zone, but guides say that many are more interested in taking selfies than learning about the accident.

The blast spewed radiation over a vast swathe of Europe and a 30-kilometre exclusion zone remains in place around the plant, although a small part of it is open to a growing number of tourists. And the trend towards more tourists looks set to continue. In July, new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree that aims to develop the site further as a tourist attraction.Louis Carlos, a 27-year-old visiting from Brazil, said he didn’t know much about the disaster before watching the TV series but was motivated to travel to Ukraine to find out more.

Zone guide Goncharenko, who accompanies groups of tourists on visits organised by private companies, said he’d experienced such booms before.in 2012, he said, also mentioning the impact of the site featuring in the“Sometimes people who came after the computer games seriously asked where one can find mutants,” he recalled.

 

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